One significant part of this that is a real pain is that the parser 
converts all text to upper case early in the process.

Ken

On 08/17/2010 02:55 PM, Igor Chudov wrote:
> I am totally in love with truetype-tracer and already engraved a bunch
> of stuff. I wish I had a faster spindle, but I digress.
>
> What I am thinking is that it would  be really great to somehow
> integrate it with G code a little bit somehow, so that we could do it
> inside G code. Example of what I was thinking is to use comments, like
> they are used for printing or MSG:
>
> (FONT /font/dir/myfont.ttf)
> (TEXT To my beloved favorite person)
> G777 X0.5 Y0.5 Z-0.02 P0.0001 F3
>
> which would write the given text with the given font starting at (0.5, 0.5).
>
> Now I would not want to abuse anyone, especially if no one wants this,
> but if the implementation of this sort of concept is straightforward,
> I could try to take a stab at implementing it.
>
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